Carpet beater



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CARPET BEA'IER Filed June so. 1928 INVENTOR llaroz F T661561! ATTQBNEY Patented July 23, 1929. I

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HAROLD F. TEETSELL, OF SAUGEBTIES, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO THE HOLT-LYON CO. INC., OF SAUGERTIES, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

CARPET IBEATER.

Applieationfiled June so, 1928. Serial No. 289,337.

This invention relates to beating imple- 12 lying in substantially the same plane with ments which are particularly designed for the arms and bight. A second length of removing dust or dirt from carpets, and wire B is bent medially to provide a pair comprehends an improved construction of of arms 13 joined at one end by a bight 1 1-,

5 the b ater blade. the bight 1 1 being of lesser size than the One of the principal objects of the presbight 11 and of approximately the same ent invention. is to provide an improved carsize as the .U-shaped offset portion 12. Atpet beater constructed of several lengths of ter the'wires A and B are formed as illus- 50 wire which are interengaged and twisted trated in Figures 2 and 3, the arms 13 are together to provide the blade and shank portrained around the outer sides of the intion for the reception of the handle. wardly offset U-shaped portion 12 and then More specifically, the invention comprethrough said portion, as clearly illustrated hends a carpet beater composed of two in Figure 1, until the offset portion and 5 lengths of wire, each of which is bent medibight 14 of the wire B bind and interlock. 15 .ally to provide a pair of arms connected at The free terminals of the arms 10 and 13 are .one end by a bight, the bight of one of said. thenintertwisted to form a shank 15'having wires being formed with an inwardly offset an offset portion 16, over which a handle 17 portion with which the bight of the remainis engaged and locked. he intertwisting ing wire is interlocked, together with means of the free ends of the arms 10 and 13 holds 20 for joining the free ends of the arms to hold the interlocked or inter-engaged offset porthe same in interlocked relation and to attion 12 and bight 14; against separationand ford a shank for the reception of the handle. shapes the wires in the form oi a beater Other objects reside in the comparative blade. f c5 simplicity of construction, the economy with What is claimed i which the same may be produced and the A carpet beater comprising two lengths general efficiency derived therefrom. of wire, one longer than the other, each of lVith the above recited and other objects which is bent medially to provide a pair of in view, reference is had to the following dearms connected at one end by a bight, the scription and accompanying drawings, in bight of one of the wires being of greater 30 which there is exhibited one example or size than the other and formed with a sub- ,embodiment of the invention, while the stantially inwardly otlset U-shaped portion claim defines the actual scope of the same. v at a point medially or the same and of ap In the drawings: proximately the same size as the bight of 7 Figure 1 is a perspective view of the com the other wire, said offset portion having its 30 pleted beater. opposite arm portions extending for anap- Figures 2 and 3 are views of the wires preciable distance parallel to the adjacent prior to their assembly. portions of the arms of the other wire and Referring to the drawings by characters interlocked by being intertwisted therewith, of reference, A designates a length of wire and means for joining together the free ends which is bent medially to form a pair of of all of the said arms by intertwisting the arms 10, 10 joined at one end by a bight 11 same to form a handle shank. having an inwardly offset U-shaped portion HAROLD F. 'TEETSELL. 

